{"id":369093,"date":"2025-12-24T15:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369093\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T15:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T15:34:25","slug":"china-and-india-drive-record-global-coal-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/369093\/","title":{"rendered":"China and India drive record global coal consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>China (31.8% share in 2024) and India (8.3% share in 2024) have driven the increase in global carbon emissions this century.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Global-CO2-Emissions.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"460\" alt=\"Global CO2 Emissions\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Both nations have shown an insatiable appetite for coal.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, China accounted for 55.8% of the world\u2019s coal consumption, whereas India accounted for 13.9%. Australia, by contrast, accounted for only 0.9% of the world\u2019s coal consumption in 2024:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Coal-consumption.png\" width=\"1007\" height=\"709\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China (31.8% share in 2024) and India (8.3% share in 2024) have driven the increase in global carbon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[64,63,75,128],"class_list":["post-369093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}